MWC usually belongs to phones. Bigger screens, faster chips, foldable everything. So when a Kansas City company called EAR Micro showed up in Barcelona with a pair of handcrafted earbuds that start at $3,000 and top out past $115,000, it felt like someone had wandered into the wrong convention. They hadn’t. The T10 Bespoke landed […]
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Every phone promises a better display. Brighter peaks, faster refresh rates, more colors than the human eye can register. None of that solves the actual problem: your eyes still burn after three chapters of a book on a phone screen. Screen fatigue comes down to design, and most phones don’t bother solving it. TCL thinks
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Most wearable AI devices at MWC 2026 wanted to put information in front of your eyes. Scople went the other direction entirely. Built by startup Moxiebyte, this pocket-sized gadget uses computer vision to analyze what’s happening around you in real time, from the emotional reactions of people you’re talking to, to whether you’re reaching for
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Small tablets have been stuck for years. Apple updates the iPad Mini on its own timeline, Samsung stopped competing at the premium end of the category, and few other brands are willing to invest in pushing the compact tablet forward. The assumption is that people want either a big phone or a big tablet. That’s
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ARTICLE – Most speaker companies drop new products that replace what came before. Sonos is going the other direction. The company today announced Sonos Play and Sonos Era 100 SL, two speakers priced at $299 and $189 that expand an existing system rather than reset it. Both are up for pre-order now at sonos.com, with
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ARTICLE – Rugged phones have spent the last five years getting tougher without getting more interesting. Thicker glass, bigger batteries, higher IP ratings, all of it useful, none of it surprising. Ulefone walked into MWC 2026 in Barcelona last week and broke that pattern with a phone that pulls apart, and that’s what makes the
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Most people stopped carrying a pen on purpose. Phones replaced notepads, digital signatures killed the ink-on-paper moment, and keeping a writing tool on you started feeling like a habit from a previous era. That assumption holds until it doesn’t. You’re at a customs desk, a trailhead register, or signing a delivery receipt, and there’s nothing
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ARTICLE – The night before MWC officially opened, AGIBOT brought a robot to the Palacio Real de Pedralbes in Barcelona. The crowd at Showstoppers had come to see new gadgets. What they got was a 131 centimeter machine performing a martial arts sequence, then hip hop choreography, then dropping into a full split on the
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The wireless earbuds market doesn’t take breaks. Over the past seven months, a fresh wave of releases has landed from brands that clearly weren’t content to coast on last year’s lineup. From Apple’s latest Pro revision to a sub-$100 pair that punches absurdly above its price, there’s something here for just about every kind of
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There’s a phone at MWC 2026 that can start an actual fire. OUKITEL’s WP63 hides an electric igniter behind a tiny trap door on the top of the phone, and that’s only one of five products the rugged device maker brought to Barcelona last week. The full lineup spans phones, a tablet, a laptop, and
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